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ANNOUNCEMENT: Security

IBM introduced a launch of the new and enhanced versions of the Tivoli Access family of products and solutions for eGA on May 25, 2010. It delivers a highly scalable, standards-based offerings to manage and enforce secure user access to a wide variety of Web applications, Web services, software as a service (SaaS), Cloud-, and data-based services across the enterprise.

This announcement includes new software releases for:

• Tivoli Security Policy Manager V7.1
• Tivoli Access Manager for e-business V6.1.1
• Tivoli Federated Identity Manager V6.2.1
• Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway V6.2.1
• Tivoli Federated Identity Manager for z/OS V6.2.1

And solution releases for:

• IBM Tivoli Identity Access and Assurance V1.1
• IBM Tivoli Unified Single Sign-On V1.1

IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager V7.1 delivers enhanced data security management solutions to help reduce the complexity and cost of managing and enforcing fine-grained entitlements and message security policies in a heterogeneous IT, Cloud, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments.

IBM Tivoli Access Manager V6.1.1 delivers updated application security and Web single sign-on (SSO) solutions to manage and enforce secure user access to a wide variety of Web applications and services. IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager V6.2.1 offers enhanced federated SSO and identity mediation services to expand access to consumers, and help provide secure collaboration with business partners, including enforced access to SaaS and Cloud-based services.

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway V6.2.1 provides an entry-level solution that enables organizations to establish federated identity management and offers access control for cloud and SaaS environments with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol support.

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager for z/OS V6.2.1 offers the federated single sign-on and Web services identity service, similar to the distributed version, and provides clients the ability to natively run the application in a mainframe environment.

IBM Tivoli Identity and Access Assurance V1.1 helps address today's organizational security challenges by administering, securing, and monitoring identities, roles, and entitlements with efficient lifecycle management, access controls, and compliance auditing.

IBM Tivoli Unified Single Sign-On V1.1 addresses requirements for SSO inside, outside, and between organizations. Ordering this single part number enables you to realize the combined benefits of two leading single sign-on solutions - IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On (suite component) and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (which includes IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business).

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Demos/Videos

IBM Tivoli Access Manager software helping organizations to bring new applications to market
In this video, Frits Andersen of Jyske Bank in Denmark speaks about how IBM Tivoli Access Manager software is helping the organization to bring new applications to the market faster and become more competitive in the marketplace.

Introduction to zSecure Audit
This demonstration gives a brief introduction to zSecure Audit functions and how they can help the performance of the mainframe security administrator. IBM Tivoli zSecure Audit provides a compliance and audit solution that enables you to automatically analyze and report on security events and detect security exposures.

Introduction to zSecure Admin
This demonstration introduces a small selection of the zSecure Admin functions that can simplify the administration of your Mainframe security. IBM Tivoli zSecure Admin enables more efficient and effective RACF administration, and uses significantly less resources, for both live and offline databases.

IBM Tivoli zSecure CICS toolkit
This demonstration provides an overview of the IBM Tivoli zSecure CICS Toolkit, which enables you to perform mainframe administrative tasks or inquire into user authorizations from a CICS environment, freeing up native-RACF resources.

IBM Tivoli zSecure Command Verifier
This demonstration provides an overview of IBM Tivoli zSecure Command Verifier, a policy enforcement solution that enforces compliance to company and regulatory policies by preventing erroneous commands.

White Papers

IBM Tivoli access management delivers market-leading foundational capabilities for strengthening identity, data and application security This white paper explores the major access management scenarios that organizations face and shows how the IBM Tivoli access management portfolio can help organizations address these scenarios by applying industry-leading identity, data, and application security capabilities. Download the white paper

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Understanding the Impact of Web 2.0 on an Organization's Security Risk
This podcast will highlight examples of common Web application vulnerabilities, review recent public security and privacy breaches, applicable regulatory compliance legislation and will explain how to defend against attacks at the Web application layer. This podcast will also discuss common Web 2.0 vulnerabilities, explain techniques for exploiting and protecting web services and Ajax and the common attacks (ie. Cross-site scripting) they enable.

Read the white paper: IBM Security Technology Outlook: An outlook on emerging security technology trends

Encentuate and Consul Users:

Check out the info on the Tivoli User Community Portal page for acquired customers on ibm.com

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